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Distributional findings

Study Japanese General Social Survey (2013): study JP 2003

Public
20-89 aged, general population, Japan, 2003
Survey name
JP-GSS 2003
Sample
Probability multistage stratified area sample
Respondents
N = 10593
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
Self report on single question

Are you happy?
5  happy
4
3
2
1  unhappy
-   no answer
Classification:
O-HL-u-sq-n-5-a
Author's label:
degree of happiness
Remarks:
Frequencies derived from cumulative data 2000-2003, substracting frequrncies 2000, 2001 and 2002
Observed distribution
Frequencies
1: 1.5%,   2: 5.9%,   3: 33.2%,   4: 31%,   5: 28.1%   (total 99.7%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.79 6.96
SD:
0.97 2.42